Slide buckle



Nov. 1, 1932 J. H. DOMKEE 1,885,239

SLIDE BUCKLE Filed July 16, 1931 INVEpFlEE JEIHN H DIIIMKEE ATw- Patented Nov. 1, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT orl 'icn JOHN H. DOMKEE, F WEST'I-IAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR- TO TIE-IE. WIRE NOVELTY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION"OF CONNECTICUT SLIDE BUCKLE Application filed July 16, 1931. Serial No. 551,117.

This invention relates to slide buckles employed for adjusting the length of looped straps, Webbing or the like, upon which the buckle is mounted, the adjustment being maintained thereby without any penetration into the material, and the objects of the invention are to provide an entirely rigid and indestructible slide buckle ,to provide a slide buckle that is reversible; to provide a slide buckle of the aforesaid type made of multiple interchangeable units relatively secured in permanent intimate union; and to provide a slide buckle of the aforesaid type, including intermediate bars having projecttions extending out of the buckle plane. With these and other objects in View as may become apparent from the within disclosures, the invention consists not only of the particular form herein pointed out and'illus trated in the drawing, but readily admits of certain modifications within the scope of what hereinafter may be claimed.

This invention is an improvement upon the structure, illustrated, set forth and claimed in 5 an United States patent issued to me June 16, 1931, Number 1,810,647 on a slide buckle of the pair of loops type, the loops there being integrally connected on one side and relatively secured, one to the other, in permanent intimate union upon the opposite sides of the loops, the slide buckle being made from a sin gle piece of wire. The improvement about to be disclosed is the association of multiple loop units of such simple construction as will permit the units to be made upon stand ard wire forming machine and power presses, and united in permanent intimate union.

The character of the improvement may be best understood by reference to one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by the drawing in which the Figure 1 is an upright elevation of the device; the Figure 2 is a side elevation thereof; and the Figure 3 is a cross-section upon the dotte line '33 of the first figure.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the buckle units 1 and 2 are each made in substantially rectangular form from separate pieces of wire and so relatively associated as to provide the pair of loops 3 and 4:.

For the purpose of facilitating the manufacture, these units 1 and 2 are preferably made identical, one to the other, each unit having upper and lower horizontal bars 5 and 6, respectively, and side structures 7 and'8, the

wire from one side structure being bent-in- V wardly in substantial parallel relation to the upper bar 5 and thus extending a short distance that the wire end 9 may abut the wire end 10 of the lower horizontal bar 6 ata place adjacent to one side structure. The lower horizontal bar 6 of each unit is provided with formed spaced projections 11 eX- tending out of the buckle plane in opposite directions, as best illustrated by the'Figures 2 and 3. In associating ina common plane .apair of units, as 1 and 2, the' unit 2 is in verted and preferably turned around so that the lower horizontal bar 6 of the lower unit becomes the upper bar 6 of that unit, and the formed bars 6 of each unit are not only thereby closely associated, but the wire ends 9 and 10 abut, adjacent opposite sides of the pair of units 1 and 2, as thus associated, and as illustrated by the Figure l. While thus associated, the units 1 and 2 may be secured, one to the other, in any manner prompted by mechanical expediency to thereby provide and an intermediate bar structure by means of the formed cooperating bars 6. It is preferable, however, to secure the thus associated units 1 and 2 by means of uniting the interengaging metal surfaces of the ends 9 and 10 of each unit, and an adjacent engaging portion of the bar 6 of the associated unit, in permanent intimate union as by welding, brazing or soldering, as at 12 and 13 as designated by the dotted line enclosures in the a slide buckle having a pair of loops 3 and 4 .4

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projections 11, extending an equal distance,

in both directions out of the buckle'plane, co-

operate with the entire structure to provide a reversible slide buckle in that the elevation opposite to that illustrated by the Figure 1 is substantially identical to the elevation as thus illustrated.

I claim:

1. A slide buckle comprising a pair of substantially rectangular loops, each loop formed from a separate piece of Wire, and each loop having upper and lower horizontal bars and side structures, and the Wire ends abutting, one against the other, in a horizontal bar and adjacent a side structure, one of the horizontal bars of each loop being formed With spaced projections extending out of the plane of its respective loop, and the pair of loops being so associated in a common plane, one With the other, that the formed bars cooperate to provide the slide buckle With an intermediate bar structure having spaced projections extending in opposite directions out of said common plane, and means uniting in permanent intimate union the engaging metal surfaces oi both Wire ends of each loop and an adjacent portion of a horizontal bar of the other loop.

2. A slide buckle comprising a pair of loops, each loop being formed from a separate piece of Wire, the lower bar of one loop and the upper bar of the, other loop being formed with projections extending out of the plane of its respective loop, each proj ection having an apex intersected by its line of altitude dividing the projection into halves, the projections of one bar being unconnected to the projections of the other bar, and means securing the pair of loops one to the other.

JOHN H. DOMKEE. 

